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Originally Posted by bfisher
It's Gerald Durrell's memoir of the time he spent with his family on Corfu in the late 1930s; so possibly some fiction there 
His brother was a well-known fiction writer (Lawrence Durrell - "Justine"), and is one of the persons included in the memoir.
The Corfu trilogy has been dramatized several times. |
OIC.
I hate it when books do that. I saw information on an ebook a couple of days ago. I could not decide it is was fiction or non-fiction. I read and read. Finally, in the last one or two lines of the book description, it said something to indicate the fact that it was, indeed, fiction.
It's not just us non-fictionistas who don't appreciate that, I'm sure. Some people want to read fiction, and not any non-fiction. They would have had the same issue as I did.
Despite the adage, "you can't judge a book by its cover," in point of fact many times the front, at least, of the book jacket will give away the genre. Sometimes the title will. A clue that I very often use, but didn't on this particular book that we're talking about, is to check the amount of dialogue--fiction books will have much, much, much more than non-fiction books, generally speaking. In fact, some non-fiction books won't have any dialogue, for one reason or another. By dialogue, I mean quotes; non-fiction books may have something like, "this person said such-and-such," but don't use exact words (usually because that information is not known, but the gist of what the person said is).